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Elephant wants to throw God out of the republicrat party

Another of these “keep faith in Church” (and nowhere else) people is sounding off on the Federal election results.  Kathleen Parker advises that the GOP move away from, separate and put in their place all those darn evangelicals who object to the party moving into republicrat/democrat-lite operations. 
Kathleen’s article really shows the hostility that many “pragmatic” political writers, who claim to be conservative have to Christian faith.  Praise God the founders didn’t feel that way.
Read Ms. Parker’s article.
A contributor provides an excellent response below.  Jump in yourself!
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Kathleen, you bring up an interesting topic. I think, you are ignoring some of the vital details in your conclusion. First, in the last 3 years, Democrats have run the most “God filled” set of campaigns in my life time. They completely canned the platforms that are the most offensive to people who hold to a Judeo-Christian value system.
 
Now, for discerning people, we realize that their campaign was smoke and mirrors. Barack is no Evangelical and Hillary is no Methodist. But, they adopted the forms. And, trust me, there are plenty of people in my 4000 member church who saw more genuine faith in Obama than they did in McCain.
 
I’m Not saying that I agree with that assessment. But I am saying that God WAS clearly part of the campaign for the winners in this election, even if it was more style than substance.
 
My second point, and far more important, is that this nation’s problems all derive from a shedding of God and morality. I’m not saying that everyone in America should be a White Evangelical Christian, or that we have exclusive right to leading the country. But the values and principles that we were founded on have been lost.
 
A specific religious sect is NOT the foundation of America’s systems of liberty and justice. But, the principle of Religious liberty and justice IS. Unfortunately, the GOP leadership have already pushed that aside too far. The founders believed in religious tolerance, while simultaneously creating a system of Judeo-Christian values and principles embodied in our ethic of “Liberty and Justice for all”.
 
The GOP was founded by recognizing that. The GOP will fail when it forgets that. I sense this is what is happening. If you noticed: Huckabee proved to be intollerant and focused on negatives about the faith of Romney. Romney hit dischord with many by having supported Gay programs and opposing limitations of the Abortion industry. McCain failed to resonate with many of us by first attacking us 8 years ago and second by pandering to the far left over the last 8 years.
 
The message, my dear Kathleen, is exactly the opposite of what the “erstwhile conservative party” seems to be thinking. It is we the Evangelicals who have desperately tried to get the party to open up to the young and the diverse. It is the Rockefeller branch that have a stranglehold against it. Trust me, I was a State Convention delegate and I saw this first hand across my state.
 
You want to know the future of the GOP? If it has one? It is with the young people who stood with Ron Paul’s revolution to return us to a CONSTITUTIONAL Conservativism. Far too many of the GOP good old boys are doing everything they can to retain the oligarchy that the GOP was once the stalwart force against.
 
Evangelicals are not the problem. Rather, it is that the party hates it’s own base! By and large, evanglicals are more influential and more passionate about turning this country around and ending the big-government kabal than any other demographic. It is the “erstwhile” country-clubbers who have lost their way. They would rather pander to the left than stand for what is right.